Kas mani pārsteidza bezmaksas žurnāliņā un kur pazuda kokosrieksta otra puse What surprised me in a free magazine and what I did with the other half of the coconut

Nu jau esmu pieradusi pie bezmaksas avīzēm un žurnāliem visās Londonas stacijās. Reti kad paņemu, jo esmu nogurusi no to stila. Kaut kas pazīstams man likās "Metro" un "Evening Standard" slejās. Bet kas? To sapratu, kad uzzināju īpašnieku vārdus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Evening_Standard Saprotu jau, ka to žurnālu veido liels un "multikulturāls" kolektīvs, bet tomēr stils ir drusku līdzīgs krievu avīzēm :)))
Tomēr tam ir arī bezmaksas žurnāli katru nedēļu. Viens no tiem ir "Stylist", jau pēc nosaukuma skaidrs, par ko raksta, un reizēm ko tieši tādu gribas palasīt. Šorīt manu uzmanību piesaistīja jaunā Stylist redkolēģija - izrādās šis ir 200.numurs un redakcijas krēslus ieņēmuši dažnedažādi sabiedrībā zināmi cilvēki. Un tā, vienā no lappusēm ieraudzīju lēdiju Vivjēnu Vestvudu un viņas īso, bet tik kodolīgo rakstu par mūsu laika realitāti, ka nevaru nepadalīties. Aprbrīnoju, kā tik īsos teikumos var tik precīzi un saprotami izklāstīt mūsdienu neofeodālisma būtību. Raksts šeit.

I've got used to London's free newspapers already, so I read them so very seldom. I'm kind of tired of their writing style. When I just arrived in London I took them almost every day, but all the time I felt something familiar in the way the news were presented. I understood what's the matter only when I learned who were the owners of the Evening Standard - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Evening_Standard Of course, I know that there are a multicultural team of editors, however I can't help but see how much it resembles Russian newspapers :)))
And they publish several free magazines every week, one of them - Stylist, I took this morning. This was their 200th issue and all the editorial team was replaced by well known people, aka celebrities. Browsing through the pages I stumbled upon a column written so extremely well... it was written by the Dame Vivienne Westwood. I totally admire how well she managed to put all this information about the neo-feudalism we all are trapped in into a comprehensive, simple, yet so informative short column. 

Atgriežoties pie piezemētākām lietām gribu pastāstīt, kur pazuda otra puse no vakardienas kokosrieksta. Sablendēju to ar karstu ūdeni. Šoreiz pienu gatavoju biezāku, uz pusriekstu ņēmu puslitru karsta ūdens. Atkal izkāsu caur katūna audumiņu - marle nepatīk, jo laiž cauri biezumus, bet kapronu, poliesteru u.c. sintētiskos audumus nelietoju, jo negribu sadzerties kaprona un Co putekļus. Pieliku nedaudz tīra kakao pulvera (mmm, esmu nopirkusi amazonā Callebaut kakao, ļoooti garšīgs) un drusku agaves. Pašai savs zīda dzēriens :)

And now about something more down to earth - about my coconut, i.e. the other half of it. Tonight I took it out from the fridge and blended with some 500ml of hot water. Strained through the muslin cloth (I don't use the cheesecloth because I don't like the solids and I don't use any poliamide or other synthetics because I don't want to eat synthetic dust), added some pure cacao powder (my favorite is Callebaut) and a little bit of agave. So silky and comforting!